1] A long, long ago... I can still How that music to make me smile And I knew if I had my That I could make those people And, maybe, they'd be for a while But February me shiver With every I'd deliver Bad news on the I take one more step I can't if I cried When I about his widowed bride But something touched me deep The day the died
So bye-bye, American Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good old boys drinking whiskey 'n rye Singing, "This'll be the day I die "This'll be the day I die."
2] Did you write the of love And do you have faith in God If the tells you so? Do you believe in rock 'n' Can music save your mortal And can you teach me how to dance slow? Well, I know that in love with him `cause I saw you in the gym You kicked off your shoes Man, I dig those and blues I was a teenage broncin' buck a pink carnation and a pickup truck But I knew I was out of The day the music I started
Bye, bye Miss Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye this'll be the day that I die This'll be the day I die
3] Now for ten years we've on our own And moss grows fat on a stone But that's not how it to be the jester sang for the king and queen In a coat he borrowed from James And a voice that from you and me Oh, and while the king was down The jester stole his thorny The courtroom was No was returned And while Lennon read a book on The quartet practiced in the And we dirges in the dark The day the music We singing
Bye, bye American Pie my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinking and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die This'll be the day I die
4] Helter skelter in a summer The birds flew off with a fallout Eight miles and falling fast It landed on the grass The players for a forward pass With the jester on the sidelines in a Now the air was sweet perfume While the sergeants played a marching We all got up to Oh, but we got the chance! `cause the tried to take the field; The band refused to yield Do you recall what was The day the music We started
Bye, bye American Pie Drove my to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinking and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die be the day that I die
5] Oh, and we were all in one place A generation in space no time left to start again So on: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick! Flash sat on a candlestick Cause fire is the only friend Oh, and as I watched him on the My hands were clenched in fists of No born in hell Could break Satan's spell And as the flames climbed high into the To light the sacrificial I saw laughing with delight The day the music We singing
Bye, bye Miss Pie Drove my to the levee but the levee was dry And them ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin' this'll be the day I die This'll be the day I die
6] I met a girl who the blues And I her for some happy news But she just and turned away I went to the sacred store Where I'd the music years before But the man there said the music play And in the streets: the screamed The lovers cried, and the poets But not a was spoken; The bells all were broken And the men I admire most: The father, son, and the holy They caught the train for the coast The day the music And were singing
[Deleted And there I alone and afraid I dropped to my knees and I prayed And I promised him I could give If only he would make the live And he promised it would live more But this time one equal four And in five years four had to mourn And the was reborn
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